Category: Thinking Politically

The first place in the 2024 guidelines is devoted to economic competitiveness rather than the European Green Deal as in 2019. If we do not want to fall hopelessly behind the Americans and the Chinese, it must be made easier for companies to do business, thus the new top priority. No wonder then that the…

Joe Biden should be tried and convicted of illegally providing American bombs and planes for genocide, but not before being forced to watch videos of some of the thousands of Palestinian kids murdered or maimed by Biden’s bombs and warplanes. Let Biden see the blank look of horror of a temporarily surviving Palestinian child alongside…

Following a ten-day siege, the Palestinian Authority began, on December 14, a violent raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank. The PA security forces used similar tactics as used by the Israeli occupation forces in their routine attacks on the area. The camp, which is a mere half a square kilometer in…

After Amnesty International released a report calling the war in Gaza a genocide, Amnesty’s Israeli branch quickly issued a statement saying most of its members don’t believe genocide has occurred. But even before the report came out I resigned my position as chair of the board of Amnesty Israel. I didn’t step down because of…

Amnesty International’s research has found sufficient basis to conclude that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip, the organization said in a landmark new report. The report, ‘You Feel Like You Are Subhuman’: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza, documents how, during its military offensive launched…

HOME> Opinion> syria A boy carries an unexploded Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) at the site of the previous evening’s Israeli airstrike that targeted shipments of weapons that belonged to Syrian government forces in Qamishli, in mainly Kurdish northeastern Syria, on December 10, 2024. The UN special envoy for Syria called on Israel on December 10…

None but a few corrupt cronies will be shedding tears at the tyrant’s departure. But there should be no doubt that what we are witnessing in Syria today is a huge defeat, a mini 1967 for the Arab world. There is not yet a definitive settlement, but a few things are clear. Assad is a…

From Ruben Bolling:

Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Israel has carried out an unprovoked invasion of Syria with the support of the U.S. The goals are clear: take strategic land, render Syria defenseless for the future, and redraw the political map of the Middle East. Even as Bashar al-Assad was scrambling to get out of Syria, Israel…